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  • For people in the Netherlands and Belgium: Bol.com.

    For elsewhere: AliExpress, Temu, Vinted (European).

    For more specialised services:

    Furniture: IKEA (Swedish)
    Clothes: Zalando (German)
    Food delivery: Jumia (German), HelloFresh (German).

    Generally, it’s best to buy directly from the companies themselves. Buy from small or mid-sized companies. You’ll skip on the high prices that way, as there’s no markup. Additionally, since you are not one of millions of consumers - but one of a few hundred, they will care more about you.



  • For some extra existential crisis, consider this.

    In 1x1010^56 years, a new big bang could occur in the universe, through quantum tunneling.

    If you multiply that with all possible ways in which all subatomic particles in the observable universe could be arranged (1x10^115), that might be a possible timeframe for a new universe exactly like ours.

    That is, a universe in where you posted that comment, and I’m writing this right now. Maybe we’re doing that a few seconds differently, but overall it’s the same universe.


  • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow far left am I?
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    24 days ago

    From what I read the issues can give wildly differing results, though.

    That said, I’d wage that if they played it accordingly to their own IRL beliefs, most normal people would fall anywhere inbetween these;

    • Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
    • Democratic Socialists
    • New York Times Democracy
    • Left-Leaning College State
    • Civil Rights Lovefest
    • Scandinavian Liberal Paradise* (really should be labelled “Scandinavian Social Democrat Paradise”)


  • "This glass shines. It does so by guiding extremely tiny kernels (which repel from others) through a sort of ‘road’ where they pass easier. This road leads to itself only.

    There is a place that pushes these kernels away to an area on that road they’re pulled towards. When it encounters a sort of barrier, it hits that, and splats like a fruit; that’s light."

    Or put even easier:

    “There’s a place that makes tiny kernels. Those kernels are thrown from that place, following a path; when they hit their target, they scatter, giving light.”

    Edit: replaced tomato with fruit.




  • Comrade, you may dislike China; and certainly it’s got its problems. It’s terrible indeed.

    Yet where is the USA, if the American president supports UnitedHealthcare? Where is the USA, when its leaders siphon money from you, and try to tell you you’re one of them, when you clearly aren’t? Where is the USA, when Trump hides all Epstein evidence away?

    Has America ever actually let you improve? Can you develop yourself when you live in fear and panic?